Dame Patience Jonathan, our amiable former first lady who kept Nigerians laughing in spite of their challenges has in the last two years gone through a lot of stress and strain in a bid to have access to some $15m frozen in four bank accounts which although bear neither her name nor her signature, but insists belong to her. Her only remote connection with the accounts, according to EFCC, are Dame Jonathan’s driver, house boy and two other domestic staff,… Read more

First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan made her first public appearance with the husband in Abuja on Sunday since the presidential election. She has not attended any public function with the President Jonathan since he lost the March 28th Presidential election to Gen. Muhammudu Buhari. Dame Jonathan read the new testament lesson from 1st Timothy 6:11-19 at the Thanksgiving and Farewell service at the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Cathedral Church of the Advent, Life-camp, Gwarimpa, Abuja. There was thanksgiving by… Read more

SIR: It was no surprise that First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan relished the emergence of her husband as the sole presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party. She is a well-bred, loyal woman who has to be the natural runner up in joy at an occasion where her husband is the celebrant. But Patience is more than that. She is the politician’s dream wife. She loves her husband fiercely and makes no pretence about it. She dares to fix things… Read more

These are interesting times, for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Move over, Chief Tony Anenih, Chairman, Board of Trustees, the PDP, from your exalted position as Mr. Fix-it, of the usual viruses, that spew from the divergent parts of that self acclaimed biggest party in Africa. Move in, the first lady, Mama Peace, Her Excellency, Dame (Dr.) Patience Jonathan, recently retired Permanent Secretary, Bayelsa state. With her motherly touch, Dame Jonathan, the most politically active first lady, in the checkered… Read more